“I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.”

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

There’s only one way to work — like hell.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

She’s the original good time who was had by all.

Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.